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All the Power of MicroStation
Bentley Map takes full advantage of MicroStation’s 2D and 3D design productivity innovations to create and maintain spatial data. Smart, quick drawing and editing of GIS features has never been easier. Features such as AccuDraw for dynamic control and input, and AccuSnap for intelligent and interactive snapping are available in Bentley Map when creating geospatial objects. You also have MicroStation’s dimensioning, raster management, printing, publishing, and much more!
Bentley Map leverages the MicroStation display subsystem, which is powered by Microsoft’s DirectX graphics, enabling capabilities such as element transparency, PANTONE and RAL Color Systems, and photorealistic visualizations and animations. MicroStation’s 3D capabilities are fully available in Bentley Map allowing you to design and map infrastructure in a way that more closely resembles the real world assets being modeled.
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Map Manager
An intuitive Map Manager simplifies display and query of large amounts of complex spatial information, raster, and vector. The Map Manager takes advantage of MicroStation V8 XM Edition’s new display capabilities, including display ordering and transparency. Users can easily create custom maps in a WYSIWYG environment and map definitions can be saved at any time for later recall, editing, analysis, or plotting. |
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XML Feature Modeling
Bentley Map takes full advantage of the XML Feature Modeling (XFM) environment. Via the Geospatial Administrator, XFM lets users and developers create highly interactive graphic applications without programming. XFM applications help users maintain standards by encapsulating them with the feature definition and placement tools, including property based annotation and symbology. The XFM model also defines data sources and indexes for fast and seamless access to spatial data, regardless of format. |
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Oracle Spatial Editing
Oracle Spatial is fast becoming the standard method for organizations to store and manage very large volumes of spatial data. Bentley Map can edit data directly in any standard Oracle Spatial environment employing a feature locking mechanism for multi-user environments. Organizations can also take advantage of Oracle versioning to manage conflicts in an extract, edit, and post to Oracle Spatial workflow enabled by the Bentley Geospatial Server. It's straightforward for Bentley Map to maintain the topological relationships that may have been defined and stored in the Oracle Spatial database because Bentley Map uses the native Oracle Spatial topology model. |
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Topology Model and Maintenance
Topology can be created on-the-fly or on-demand in Bentley Map. Topological relationships are stored in the DGN file according to the same model employed by Oracle Spatial. This allows complex analysis operations to occur quickly and maintains compatibility with Oracle Spatial for organizations that choose to use Bentley Map as an editing application for Oracle Spatial. |
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Map Generation and Print Preparation
With Bentley Map, you can interactively place map and multi-page sheet borders and automatically populate their fields with metadata. Automatic grid and graticule generation and support for a variety of marginalia is included in Bentley Map. Bentley Map also allows users to take advantage of all the high fidelity printing and publishing capabilities of MicroStation, including publishing to intelligent 2D or 3D PDF. Bentley Map users can also take advantage of ProjectWise Interplot for additional plotting and publishing capabilities, including the centralized production and archival.
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Map Projection and Coordinate Conversion
Users can easily integrate data from a wide variety of sources into engineering and mapping workflows. Multiple data types with varying coordinate systems are transformed on-the-fly as they are integrated with Bentley Map or bulk transformations between systems can be performed. Bentley Map supports over 5500 projections and includes the ability to create user defined projections, defined via the Geospatial Administrator. |
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Interoperability
Bentley Map includes new tools to improve interoperability with other GIS formats. Directly reference ESRI SHP files, MapInfo TAB files, and others, or export your data into these formats for sharing with other groups on your project team.
The interoperability tools include a unique interface for defining import and export processes. Easily import single files or entire folders of data. The data is automatically projected into the coordinate system defined for your current map. Your project and mapping data can also be exported into these formats using the same tool with full support of attribute data and projection. |
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GIS Development Platform
Bentley Map is a robust development platform for GIS applications, particularly those that must address the challenging needs of infrastructure. It was designed with a remarkable degree of flexibility and configurability so that Subject Matter Experts can customize it via the Geospatial Administrator without writing code.
Property Based Symbology and Annotation, Criteria, Methods, Operations, Dialogs, Tool frames and tool boxes, prompts, and more can be configured through an interactive GUI that offers a wealth of options. You can also add to the capabilities provided by Geospatial Administrator by using C expressions, XSLT, and VBScript when customizing annotation and other areas. The capabilities of the Standard Placement Library can be extended even further with VBA, MDL, and a .NET API. |
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